Motivational Quotes

Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Death

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

Butler, Samuel

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

Eliot, George

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Lowell, James Russell

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Allen, Woody

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Plutarch

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Jarman, Derek

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Lee, Nathaniel

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Hubbard, Kin

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

44.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

45.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

Morris, Robert T.

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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.